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North Korea Has Options

Nathan A. Heard0 Comments

Published: October 12, 2026 In 2017, two people unknowingly working as proxies for North Korean intelligence approached Kim Jong Nam at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport. In what they thought…

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Large Language Models Will Not Enhance National Security Decision Making

Alexis Schlotterback1 Comment

Published: September 22, 2026 Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, launched the first conversational large language model (LLM), ChatGPT, in late 2022 with only a short post on X. It has…

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Nuclear Deterrence and the Midterm Elections

gsharpe & Stephen Cimbala0 Comments

Published: August 31, 2926 As the United States heads toward another set of midterm Congressional elections in November 2026, issues related to nuclear weapons, including deterrence, arms control, and nonproliferation, will be important. Whether candidates will…

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Arms Control is No Panacea, But It Helps

Stephen Cimbala0 Comments

Published: June 22, 2026 Some eighty years after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the global community still struggles with the strategic, political, and ethical implications of nuclear arms races.…

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Why the “First AI War” is Still a Human Struggle

Matthew J. Fecteau0 Comments

Published: June 8, 2026 The label of the “first AI war” obscures the reality that Operation EPIC FURY is still a conflict in which human judgment remains central to targeting. Artificial intelligence (AI) has not replaced human…

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Navigating the AI and Nuclear Nexus

Muhammad Shahzad Akram0 Comments

Published: June 1, 2026 As the world gears up for the 2026 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference, a new and multifaceted factor is complicating the global strategic calculus: Artificial…

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Nuclear Deterrence in the Age of Emerging Technologies

Muhammad Usama Khalid0 Comments

Published: April 21, 2026 The amalgamation of emerging technologies and nuclear weapons systems is significantly impacting the landscape of strategic stability. The primary problem associated with such technologies is their…

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Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems: A New Battlefield Reality

Jawad Ali Shah2 Comments

Published: March 31, 2026 Technological advances and rising military expenditures in recent years have accelerated the development of Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems (LAWS). Though this technology is still in its…

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Redefining Espionage: The Unseen War for Technological Dominance

Joshua Thibert0 Comments

Published: March 24, 2026 The international system is undergoing a profound global power shift characterized by the resurgence of great power competition and a broad diffusion of technical capabilities. This…

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Learning to Love the Atom Again: Why the Future of Artificial Intelligence is Nuclear

Michael Ferguson3 Comments

Published: February 23, 2026 In his speech before the United Nations General Assembly on 8 December 1953, President Dwight Eisenhower proposed - in paraphrased terms- that the atom bomb be…

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America’s Managed Retreat: How the 2025 U.S. National Security Strategy Shifts the Burden to Allies

Sidra Shaukat0 Comments

The United States’ 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) is a document that has been written under the shadow of economic strain and military overreach, and it raises the slogan of…